Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-13
DIED BY his own act.
r. SchussIer, tho Manager Of the
Arcade Saloon, Blows Out His
Brains With . Pistol.

AI1uluS DlMACNAOA0D LIE
Supposed Cause Of the Rash Act
:. Brief Account Of His
Career.
One OF the last men to be suspected OF
suicidal intentions was w. P. Schuesler.
who, during the last few months, has been
in charge of the Arcade Saloon on Main
street. He was apparently OF a happy,
light, mercurial disposition. jovial to q
fault and perfectly satisfied with himself.
There was always q smile on his lace and
he had q jest for every acquaintance. A
handsome man. with extremely fair COM
plexion and natty in hisdress, represented
an engaging exterior at any time. and
when to this are added a smooth address
and a ready fluent tongue, he was the
picture of ease and contentment. He
roomed over the Arcade and retired to his
room yesterday morning about 1 a.. N.
He had been at the races all day and was
known to have dropped q good deal of
money there, betting on the wrong horse
invariably. At night he was round town
until q late hour in company with friends,
| and no hint of what happened q few hours
later could be derived from his actions
then. Frank Lovejoy, the bartender of
the Arcade, tells what occurred thereafter:
HE came in about 1890 or so and I ad.
vised him to see Henry Mueller about some
money transactions that had been out.
standing between them for q few days.
He said he would see him the first thing in
the morning and for me to wake him at
7:3O sharp and then retired. After a few
minutes he came down to the saloon for q
pitcher If water and that was the last I
saw OF him alive. This morning at half
past six I rang the bell that communicates
with his room repeatedly but received no
answer which 1 thought was strange. I
made up the cash and went up to Henry
Mueller. at Schmidt & Gamers, and the
P~ostof1ice. Returning to Mueller I told
him he
A A GOOD HAN
to see Schussler as he was then in his room.
He went down and returned saying he
couldn't waken him up. I said I would do
so. The door at the top of the stairs lead
ing into the suite of three rooms, of which
his bedroom is one. a locked, and l had
to get to the roof from next door north by
which means I reached the window OF his
room. The upper sash was down about q
couple of inches, and I could barely catch
a glimpse OF him lying ~slanting across the
bed, his arm hanging over the edge, his feet
resting on the floor. I called to him and
heard him groan, and looking more closely
l saw blood on his face. l came down
stairs and went up to Henry Mueller with
out delay and told him something was
wrong with Scbussler and to come down at
once. We got Officer Jordan and going up
to the door on the stairway we pried it
open and went in. Knocking at his door
we heard groans but got no reply. We
forced the door open and there he lay, nn-
dressed. with a 38.calibre British bulldog
pistol in his hand and a wound in his tenn
pie through which the bullet had passed !
and came out above the right eye, and
passing on had fattened against the lower
part of the sash. Nobody about the house |
bad heard the shot. He was partly con.
scious and 1 called DR.. Norcross, who re- |
manned with him until he died. He never
spoke a word, but his left eye opened occa-
sionally and l thought be knew us. He
died shortly after IL o'clock and the Coro-
ner's inquest was held Immediately after.
Mr.. Henry Mueller was seen about his con.
nection with the sad affair and spoke SUBJ
stantially as follows: II own the saloon
and
sCHUSSLER WAS MY MANAGER.
l have known him about two years. He
was then advertising solicitor for The
MINER, but got out Of that job and was
not doing anything particular when he
to me aud asked me to give him q
place. l got him a position at the bottlipp
works, but l knew that was no place f,r a
like him, so I got him up in the Gen.
tennidl Brewery saloon as soon as I could
he was an excellent barkeeper. As
soon as Smiling Albert left the Arcade, I
made up my mind that was the place where
he would do well, as he was an energetic
man.. 1 put him in there as manager and
him q very good salary, with a per
centage on all receipts over $4,000
month. He always turned over the receipts
the day before promptly until last Sat- .
lrday morning. whsnh he asked me to leave '
Them as he would need change. So on Sun :
lay morning there were two shifts receipts .
20 settle for. On Monday I heard he had !
been gambling and 1 sent down word to F.,
aim that l wanted to see him. He did not =!
:ome up to me on Monday, and 1 left or !
iers at the saloon that he should take no !
more OF the receipts and told Frank to tell !
Inn That we would have to make other ar. {
angements. l only wanted to have him q
tralghten up matters, as I had no inten.
ION OF pressing him. He had the three r
lays receipts, over 5000, and it was only T
Iatural for me to interfere before he be- [
ame involved any further. He must have "
elt a great deal worse over the matter Il
l had any idea of. When Frank came a
told me he was asleep in his room this
forming, l Immediately went down to the @
aloon, and finding the door at the head of il
be stairs locked, f.
Shoe IT TWICE il
three times vigorously without effect. a
hen Lovejoy came to me a short time
tier l had returned to Schmidt & Gamer;s
we went down. got an officer and forced
he door in, and you know the rest, / was -
upset by the sight. He had no y y
;caslon to be apprehensive of any harsh y
easures from me. l was his best friend. b.
had done all I could for him, only b,
anted to have a new arrangement of -,
oney matters. I'd have given three times
amount not to have had this happen" ..
ne Coroner held az inquest immediately al
cer tne nnaI agony was over. and the Jury ~
noered q verdict in accordance with the oe
Gus. Inc deceased wa a native of Phila- Ie
lphla. about IS years of age. He was in CO
e not'on business there for some years be- W.
"AS "V0us 1lC UQcn went to =
and was travelling salesman for DC
'yke Brothers for two years, and has &c L
my friends in that town. About four cit
ars ago he went to Livingston, and was Tn .
in Bozeman before coming to Sp
lite, a couple OF years ago last June. Tn
len he was engaged as advertising solici. su
ior HE MINER. He remained in this IN
sition about a year, when he became in. be-
'ested in a local publication for this sec. We
n, and the rest of his career here was al sa'
ted by Mr.: Mueller. He had taken the
d Cross degree in Masonry, and was
'mber Of the Keystone Club and the
'ntana Rifles. He has a brother. Her. l
N, in Philadelphia, to whom the news of da
death was ~telegraphed, and whose ord VII
are awaited as to the disposition of the -.
mains, which are o laid out at Bowes, 70
lertaking rooms. she
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LOCAL MISCELLANY. 1ne
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